Improvement in combined hat-hooks, nail-files, watch-keys, and tooth-picks



J. KAUFMANN.

COMBINED HAT-HOOK, NAIL-FILE, WATCH-KEY AND TOOTH-PICK. No.173 ,645.. Patented Feb.15,1 876l Amy t,

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JosE II KAUFMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED HAT-HOOKS, NAIL-FILES. WATCH-KEYS AND TOOTH-PICKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,645, dated February 15, 1876; application filed July 22, 1875.

1' 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH KAUFMANN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Combined Hat-Hook, Nail-File, Watch-Key, and Tooth-Pick, of which the followingis a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in combinin g, in a neat" and simple pocket-tool, a hathook, nail-file, watch-key, and tooth-pick, as more fully hereinafter setforth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device asmost conveniently arranged to carry in the pocket, and also presenting the watch-key ready for use. Fig.2 shows the arrangement of the tooth-pick. Fig, 3 shows,-in perspective, its application as a hat-hook.

In the drawing, A represents a 'tweezer made from a single strip of metal bent upon itself, with a clasp, a, sliding upon it between the jaws and the heels. When slid out toward the jaws the clasp' a brings the latter forcibly together, and secures them to a hat-v rim or anything interposed between them. B

is a hook pivoted in the bend of the tweezer by a rivet, the bend being slotted in the middleto allow the hook to revolve on the rivet. 'lo theheel of the hook is secured the pipe I) of a watch-key. One face of the tweezer is file'cut, as at c, Fig. 2, for trimming fingernails. dis a tooth-pick, pivoted at one end to the heel-rivet, so as to lie along one edge of the tweezer when swung over it. The clasp a slides over it, and keeps it in position until required, when the latter is run off it at the point. When the clasp is so moved up, it serves as a clamp to compress the jaws of the tweezer, while, at the same time,'the hook is freed, and may be engaged with a cord or any object that will hold it, either by hanging it over, or pressing the point of the hook into,. 7 .said object. Ordinarily the point of the hook is received in a slot in the plain side of the tweezer, the clasp having been previously run back and hooked there by sliding the clasp up over the point of the hook.

What I claim as my invention is In combination with the tweezers having 'one of its sides file-cut, the hook and watchkey, tooth-pick, and sliding clasp, substantially as described.

' JOSEPH KAUFMANN.

Witnesses:

WM. H. Lo'rz, GEO. W. FERRIS. 

